Annaliesa Rose has been singing her whole life and performing professionally for 27 years, and it shows in the way she talks about her voice. She doesn't overthink it. She learned technique from her mother Marjorie Shepheard and tone from the late Kerrie Biddell, and after long enough it stops being a set of choices and becomes something closer to breathing. What she has done deliberately is build a life. Between Canberra and Wollongong at home, Prague and Brno and Edinburgh

What begins as the story of an ordinary hospitality worker slowly unfolds into a devastating reflection on violence, empathy and the lives we so easily overlook. Built from real experiences, real workplaces and real people, the track blurs the line between personal storytelling and social commentary, proving that some of the most powerful protest songs don't begin with slogans, but with deeply human characters. As the opening track from Dylan's upcoming concept album Develop,

Her Shadow Crown is a Melbourne duo built on quiet risk. Lida (songwriter, vocalist) and Alex (producer) are creative and life partners who make music that treats memory as a raw material, spinning past selves and childhood images into songs that shimmer with vintage pop textures. Lida writes toward younger versions of herself that were never fully understood or given a place, and Alex translates the emotional centre of each song into arrangement, texture and sound in a way t

Sydney’s Inner West rockers Yendys—Sam, Shane, Harry and Nick—are four mates navigating office jobs, rising rehearsal-room costs and the creeping suspicion that escape from the nine-to-five may no longer be possible. Fortunately, they have loud guitars, a shared love of palindromes and a reliable supply of small appliances to raffle off at their shows. Their rowdy, tongue-in-cheek rock ’n’ roll finds honesty in the everyday frustrations of working life without surrendering to

Shire are a band brought together by music. The Brisbane/Meanjin four-piece - Patrick McLeaire, Sylvie Morse, Angus Clifton and Ewan Heslop - came together through different paths while still in high school. Despite their different personalities and influences, three years of playing together have forged the group into what they now call their “final form.” Their debut single, Decay, sits somewhere between dream-pop, shoegaze and post-hardcore, introducing a band interested i

Cherokee Dreams is Joshua Lynchard's most authentic emotional dumping ground. Working primarily solo, pulling together an inherited grunge palette with lo-fi textures, MIDI drums, cassette dubs and hardly discernible narratives. It sits inside a wider constellation of collaborative bands where Joshua usually plays drums a little too fast with wobbly tempos (the Invisible Teardrops, the Dismals, Nightmare Boyzzz), and Cherokee Dreams is the version of him that fully leans into